[HenryBemis]

I think that you are missing one of the biggest points. The problem with us, "facebook haters", is not that we are incapable of managing our time, or friends. I personally quit it because they are one of the worse trackers out there. They show zero respect to privacy, and every year we learn something shady practices that overshadows the previous year's shady practices.

They started as "let's connect the world", and they ended up with "let's track the world, even if they don't want to have an account with us".

I got a massive HOSTS file, a very well catered Adblock+ list and NoScript, just to stay away from those scumbags.

[grungydan]

And you seem to be missing that that isn't what the article was about. The article was talking about the people that I find absurd: "I can't stop letting sosh meeds run my life so I have to just not use them."

The issue of trading data for service isn't new and wasn't the subject of the article.